Her pale body sits staring out at street signs Immobile from panic with the constant images of A broken wall and him hovering above her A broken dresser and him pacing around her She put her things in garbage bags while he was at work Closed her bank account and left town Don't look and it won't hurt
With her mother gone and her father unknown Her sister and junior moved to New Mexico She got a job in a small time casino Spent her nights in the bathtub just to calm her nerves In a foreign room with foreign noise, In a foreign bed, in a foreign town Don't look and it won't hurt